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Venus Express is almost out of fuel. A few days ago, it looked like it might be completely out of fuel, according to a status update shared by ESA:
On 28 November 2014, the flight control team at ESOC reported lack of contact with Ven...

Description: Venus Express is still alive and talking to Earth, but may fall into Venus' atmosphere in January.

Venus Express is nearly out of fuel. Any day could be the last of its long mission to Venus. Formal science operations ended in May, but since then it has performed aerobraking experiments, deep dives into Venus' atmosphere to test wheth...

Description: Venus Express is nearly out of fuel. Any day could be the last of its long mission to Venus.

Venus Express, currently the only spacecraft orbiting our nearest planetary neighbor, will soon meet a fiery end in Venus' atmosphere. According to a press release from the European Space Agency today, its science mission has ended. But ...

Description: Venus Express, currently the only spacecraft orbiting our nearest planetary neighbor, will soon meet a fiery end in Venus' atmosphere. But its work isn't over yet. ESA will maneuver Venus Express to dip into the uppermost Venus atmosphere and study how the spacecraft responds to atmospheric pressure, giving ESA valuable experience in aerobraking.

Last week, Venus Express passed the two-year mark in space. That spacecraft only took five months to get to Venus orbit, which is just about as fast as you can make it to another planet, which means they've been taking data for more tha...

One of the goals of ESA's Venus Express mission is to hunt down clues to the question of whether Venus is currently volcanically active or not. Although it doesn't have a handy catchphrase, the question of the timing of Venus' volcanism...

According to the latest Venus Express Status Report on ESA's website, the Near Earth Commissioning Phase of the mission has been completed successfully, and the spacecraft is going to be napping for a few weeks as it continues to cruise ...

Description: According to the latest Venus Express Status Reporton ESA's website, the Near Earth Commissioning Phase of the mission has been completed successfully, and the spacecraft is going to be napping for a few weeks as it continues to cruise toward Venus.

Venus Express has been in orbit since April 11, 2006, and all but one of its instruments have been returning lots of data. There's been one fly in the ointment, however, and that's the failure of its Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS)...

Rosetta is approaching Earth for its second of three flybys, to take place on November 13 at 20:57 UTC. An article on ESA's website details the results of a targeting maneuver, which placed Rosetta on course for the flyby. Rosetta has ...

Just a quick note because I didn't want to let the weekend go by without telling people that Venus Express' star trackers are back online; the spacecraft's blindness was, I'm very happy to report, only temporary. I got the word via Twitt...

Description: Just a quick note because I didn't want to let the weekend go by without telling people that Venus Express' star trackers are back online.

When you are not the first mission to visit a planet, it can be difficult to produce scientific results that are sufficiently "brand-new" and "wow" to grab the attention of the media. "First results from X" papers abound in high-impact j...

Description: What Venus Express' Visual Monitoring Camera images of Venus have taught us about the motions of Venus' atmosphere.